A couple of moon captures and a note about the Autism Awareness Cup Event Page.
Just a very brief post. The moon is out at the moment in what is nearly full daylight here in Norfolk, and I have a couple of captures to share…
Just a brief note to say that this page has had 872 visitors in its first month. If you want to help push that number up beyond 1,000 click on the image below…
Some thoughts on round two of the 2017 six nations, and a few Sunday shares.
Yesterday saw the first two matches in round two of the 2017 Six Nations. This afternoon Scotland and France will fight out the final game of the weekend.
In the women’s match which preceded this England won 63-0, which gave them 89 unanswered points in their last 120 minutes of rugby (they were 0-13 down at half-time against France last week).
Wales dominated the men’s match for long periods, but too often did not turn pressure into points and eventually a 77th minute try put England in front for the first and only time of the match. England have not been all that impressive in either of their matches to date, but is the mark of champions to find a way to win even when not playing well.
Ireland were always in control of this match, with two players (Stander and Gilroy) recording hat tricks of tries. For the first hour the scoreline was semi-respectable but then the floodgates opened and the Irish winning margin mushroomed to over 50 points.
Two matches in to this tournament it is hard to see Italy doing anything other than bring up the rear, a long way adrift of the rest.
We start the shares with a couple of public transport related bits…
Private operators have creamed of more than £3.5 billion in profits from running Britain’s railways over the last ten years, while services get worse and prices go up. Click on the image below to read in more detail, courtesy of AOL:
The extension, from Elephant & Castle to Lewisham is expected to open in 2028-9. Click on the image below to read the Time Out piece in full. I have already pressed a link on to my London transport themed website and will be writing about it in more detail in due course.
The Wensum Valley is a very beautiful part of Norfolk, but a malign group of ‘planners’ are putting this beauty at risk – they intend to send a big new road through the heart of it. Please watch the video below to see what we are seeking to protect:
Another reminder that James and Sons next auction is on the 20th, 21st and 22nd of February, the first two days at our shop, the third at the Maids Head Hotel, Norwich. Click on the image below, from lot 891, to view a full catalogue…
Finally, the Autism Awareness Cup 2017 will be taking place at Ingoldisthorpe Social Club on June 4th. Click on the image below to visit the website.
The reason that I have not been blogging recently is that I have been ill. I returned to work yesterday, having left work early one week previously due to illness. Some traces remain but not enough to prevent me working.
After 59 matches in charge Alastair Cook is no longer England test captain. His replacement seems to be being decided between Stuart Broad (who has previously captained England in limited overs cricket) and Joe Root (the bookies favourite).
My choice out of these two would be Root. Specialist fast bowlers are rarely successful as test captains owing to the energy that their specialism takes out of them when they are in the field. The concern over Root is whether having the captaincy will adversely affect his batting.
These pictures are of missing February images that I created yesterday….
To visit the new website for the Autism Awareness Cup please click here.
Important and disturbing pictures from livescience.com….
A new satellite image tracks the retreat of Antarctica’s Larsen Ice Shelf, parts of which could disappear by 2020.
Source: Collapsing Beauty: Image of Antarctica’s Larsen Ice Shelf
Anna here showcases a splendid letter from a former strategic planner at SL, Stockholm Public Transport (there is also more air time for a comment of mine)…
Sea eagle at Gillbergsvik Käftudden Trosa 2017
After Swedish text a google translation to English follows.
Politikerna i Trosa har fått ännu en skrivelse angående exploateringsplanerna för västra Trosa och Tureholmshalvön. Ni kan läsa den nedan.
Vill ni också agera och låta politikerna veta vad ni tycker om deras planer, skriv till politikerna.
Har ni frågor om hur ni kan agera kan ni eposta mig på anna@fargaregarden.se
Ni kan också läsa skrivelsen från boende vid Gillbergsvik Käftudden i inlägget Låt örnen flyga.
Dela gärna detta inlägg vidare, så att många kan läsa och få information om frågan.
Trosa politicians has got a new letter from citizen who thinks the exploitation of Trosa nature is not so good idea considering the need to save Trosa nature. You can read a google translation of the letter here:
“Letter to the politicians in Trosa
Municipal government, City Council,
Planning Board
For information…
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I am glad that Anna found my comment so inspiring…
“Preservation of nature needs to be at the heart of planning decisions, not an optional (and often despised) extra.”
Quote from Thomas at:
https://aspiblog.wordpress.com
Excellent words that made me do this drawing.
Anna
A very interesting piece from WEIT…
Announcing an important meeting that will be happening in King’s Lynn.
NAS West Norfolk have arranged a half-day event featuring on expert on Pathological Demand Avioidance.
I have a screenshot of the official flyer for the event and a link to the original PDF…
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This is the Duke’s Head Hotel, where the event will be happening:
Introducing the Cosmic Skeptic, who I came across by way of twitter.
The debunking takes place in a seven minute video that was drawn to my attention by twitter, but there is also a cosmicskeptic website, which I recommend to your attention.
Here is a second video from the Cosmic Skeptic (real name Alex O’Connor).
Information about various autism related events coming up in the future, plus a few extra links.
I have a few other things to share as well, but the focus of this post is on some information I have just received by way of NAS West Norfolk.
This came to me formatted as a word document – and as well as the screenshot below I have included a link to the original:
This event is taking place at the John Innes Centre, which is located close to the University of East Anglia, a little outside town (though there are regular bus services from central Norwich to UAE). Below the flyer I have included a screenshot from google maps.
This is taking place on June 4th, at Ingoldisthorpe Social Club. For more information, and/ or to support by the event by liking and sharing its facebook page click the image below:
Not long ago a case involving one of Britain’s leading bus companies went to the supreme court, where it was established that bus companies, and by extension bus drivers are legally obliged to grant access to wheelchair bound passengers. Therefore, this story from disabledgo about an incident in Wakefield where the driver not only refused to allow on a wheelchair bound passenger but then allowed/ encouraged passengers to blame the wheelchair user for the subsequent delay looks even worse than normal.
This next piece comes from indy100.com. To read it please click the image below:
This piece, titled “Big Wheels Old and New”, showcases seven of the lots going under the hammer at James and Sons’ next auction, which feature the Gigantic Wheel that stood at Earls Court between 1895 and 1906, while also mentioning the London Eye. Click on the picture of lot 1286 to view my piece and the picture of lot 1295 below it to view a full auction catalogue:
Earlier today I featured a superb post by Heather Hastie on this subject. Sam Harris, distinguished author of many fine books such as “The End of Faith”, “Letter to a Christian Nation” and “The Moral Landscape” has produced his take on this issue, which you can read here.
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